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From: Philipp Gesang <gesang@stud.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: ConTeXt ML <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re:  width (height?) of 90° rotated tabulate
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 11:59:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111103105959.GA1672@aides> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111103001532.GB23547@aides>


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On 2011-11-03 01:15, Philipp Gesang wrote:
> Good evening all,
> 
> the following example demonstrates my problem:
> 
> ··8<·····························································
> 
> \showframe
> 
> \newdimen\tabcolsize
> \tabcolsize=.25\vsize
> \def\knuth{\input knuth\relax}
> 
> \startbuffer[sometable]
>   \starttabulate[|p(\tabcolsize)|p(\tabcolsize)|p(\tabcolsize)|p(\tabcolsize)|]
>     \dorecurse{5}{\dorecurse{4}{\NC\knuth}\NC\NR}
>   \stoptabulate
> \stopbuffer
> 
> \starttext
> 
> \placetable[here,split,90]{none}{\getbuffer[sometable]}
> 
> \stoptext
> 
> ··8<·····························································
> 
> As you can see, I need some advice on how to restrain the
> tabulate float from flowing over into the right margin. What
> dimension do I need to set and to what value?

Just to let you know, I worked around that by locally rotating the pages
instead (== there is no spoon): ::

  \definepapersize[exception][A4]
  \setuppapersize [exception,90,landscape][exception]

and switching back to normal orientation afterwards. Context is great.

Philipp


> 
> Thanks for your time
> Philipp
> 
> 



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      reply	other threads:[~2011-11-03 10:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-03  0:15 width (height?) or " Philipp Gesang
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